How to add one event listener for all buttons

Question

How do I add an event listener to multiple buttons and get the value of each one depending on the one clicked. Eg:

<button id='but1'>
Button1
</button>
<button id='but2'>
Button2
</button>
<button id='but3'>
Button3
</button>
<button id='but4'>
Button4
</button>

So that on javascript, I wouldn't have to reference each button like:

Const but1 = document.getElementById('but1'); 
but1.addEventListener('click');

Answer 1

You don't really need to add listeners to all the buttons. There is such thing in JS as Bubbling and capturing so you can wrap all your buttons with a div and catch all the events there. But make sure you check that the click was on a button and not on the div.

const wrapper = document.getElementById('wrapper');

wrapper.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
  const isButton = event.target.nodeName === 'BUTTON';
  if (!isButton) {
    return;
  }

  console.dir(event.target.id);
})

div {
  padding: 20px;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

<div id='wrapper'>
  <button id='but1'>
  Button1
  </button>
  <button id='but2'>
  Button2
  </button>
  <button id='but3'>
  Button3
  </button>
  <button id='but4'>
  Button4
  </button>
</div>